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Markus Zusak
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” 
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
tags: pain, sadness, stoicism 3242 likes Like
Marcus Aurelius
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism 800 likes Like
Marcus Aurelius
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry 460 likes Like
Erin Hunter
“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.” 
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
tags: erin, hunter, hurt, pain, stoicism, suffer, tigerclaw, tigerstar, warrior, warriors 367 likes Like
Randy Pausch
“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.” 
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
tags: complaining, stoicism 317 likes Like
Seneca
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” 
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen 242 likes Like
Alice Hoffman
“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?” 
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
tags: restraint, stoicism 224 likes Like
T.H. White
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.” 
― T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
tags: beauty, faith, happiness, hope, life, living, love, misery, pain, positivity, stoicism 209 likes Like
Nora Roberts
“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.” 
― Nora Roberts, Midnight Bayou
tags: empathy, passion, stoicism 166 likes Like
Salman Rushdie
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.” 
― Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
tags: civil-society, courage, freedom, serenity, stoicism, terrorism 134 likes Like
Seneca
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.” 
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
tags: anthem, happiness, intrisic-motivation, stoicism 106 likes Like
Jane Austen
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?” 
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
tags: stoicism 106 likes Like
Jane Austen
“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.” 
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
tags: classics, heartbreak, stoicism 99 likes Like
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” 
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
tags: stoicism 80 likes Like
T.H. White
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.” 
― T.H. White, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
tags: cynicism, dichotomy, happiness, pain, stoicism 65 likes Like
Louise Erdrich
“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.” 
― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love
tags: emotion, stoicism 59 likes Like
Epictetus
“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.” 
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
tags: ethics, integrity, path, stoicism 54 likes Like
Robert G. Ingersoll
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler’s or Newton’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?” 
― Robert G. Ingersoll, About The Holy Bible
tags: atheism, baruch-spinoza, bruno, buddha, buddhism, cicero, epictetus, epicurus, gautama-buddha, giordano-bruno, isaac-newton, johannes-kepler, kepler, kindness, laozi, newton, patience, shakespeare, socrates, spinoza, stoicism, william-shakespeare, wisdom, zeno, zeno-of-citium, zoroaster 52 likes Like
Marcus Aurelius
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: misfortune, stoicism 51 likes Like
Seneca
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” 
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism 50 likes Like
“I hear my silence talked of in every lane;
The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.” 
― Darshan Singh
tags: me, stoicism, truth 49 likes Like
“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any leaf, any insect, any bird, any breeze could bring me to my true home. I knew I did not belong among people. Whatever they hated about me was a human thing; the nonhuman world has always loved me. I can't remember when it was otherwise. But I have been emotionally crippled by this. There is nothing romantic about being young and angry, or even about turning that anger into art. I go through the motions of living in society, but never feel a part of it. When my family threw me away, every human on earth did likewise.” 
― Wendy Rose
tags: alien-nation, alienation, changelings, humans, me, relatedness, simons-rock, stoicism, too-close-for-comfort 41 likes Like
Marcus Aurelius
“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: philosophy, stoicism 29 likes Like
Seneca
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” 
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
tags: stoicism 17 likes Like
“There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation -- the stoic approach. I think it's disgusting how they've been forgotten about in this way. It's the American hippies' fault, they saw an in there, a way of making money out of bad moods. That's all it is most of the time. You can't expect to feel cock-a-hoop every minute of every day. My mam and dad's generation understood this. They were just thankful the bombs had stopped threatening their lives. They just wanted to get on with living.” 
― Mark E. Smith, Renegade
tags: psychology, stoicism 13 likes Like
Seneca
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” 
― Seneca
tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism 13 likes Like
Koren Zailckas
“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.” 
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir
tags: boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, love, relationships, stoicism 13 likes Like
Thomas Hardy
“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.” 
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
tags: stoicism 11 likes Like
“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is
weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.” 
― Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi
tags: allah, fatalism, islam, quran, stoicism, worship 7 likes Like
Epictetus
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.” 
― Epictetus
tags: ethics, philosophy, stoicism 5 likes Like
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